Thematic Bible: Fields of activity
Thematic Bible
Labour » fields of activity » Worldly, sometimes disappointing
Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn't satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. For whom then, do I labor, and deprive my soul of enjoyment? This also is vanity, yes, it is a miserable business.
Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him."
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?
Behold, isn't it of the LORD of hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Serving the church
Yes, I beg you also, true yokefellow, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.
I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the church that is at Cenchreae,
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Motherly duties
Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Acting as judges
Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
The rulers ceased in Israel. They ceased until I, Deborah, arose; Until I arose a mother in Israel.
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Meeting an emergency and saving her household
Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two bottles of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five measures of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » In beautifying the tabernacle
All the women who were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Philanthropy
Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha (which when translated, means Dorcas). This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.
Women » fields of activity » In beautifying the tabernacle
All the women who were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.